Lee v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Young v. Barrow (2003), Lien v. Couch (1998)
2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Massengill v. Scott · Moulton v. Ford Motor Co. · Commerce Union Bank v. Davis · 604 F. Supp. 543 - Hutcheson v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Gibson Lumber Co. v. Neely Coble Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that the underlying judgment was rendered by a court of competent jurisdiction, (2) that the same parties or their privies were involved in both suits, (3) that the same claim or cause of action was asserted in both suits, and (4) that the underlying judgment was final and on the merits.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.